windigo

  1. Noun.  (alternative spelling of, wendigo) .
  2. Noun.   psychological condition specific to some Native American groups where either a person, in fever-induced delusions, believes that he or she is possessed by a cannibalistic wendigo spirit, or society, hysterically, believes the person to be so possessed.

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